Enterprise Podcast Network

Sheryl O’Loughlin, the CEO of REBBL superherb beverages, that creamy indulgent coconut milk elixirs made from the best of the Plant Queendom and author of “Killing It! An Entrepreneurs Guide to Keeping Your Head Without Losing Your Heart” joins Enterprise Radio.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Sheryl Oloughlin discuss the following:

* Tell me about the REBBL superherb beverages. What is REBBL, how did it start and why is it considered such a hot company?

* You’ve written a book called “Killing It!” An Entrepreneurs Guide to Keeping Your Head Without Losing Your Heart”. What is the book about?

* Talk more about the “Light and the Dark” in Entrepreneurship. How have you to learned how to not go to the dark side and stay in the light?

* You talk about bold humility.  What do you mean by that and why is it important in entrepreneurship?

* You talk about Entrepreneurship as an epic adventure. What do you mean by that?

Sheryl O’Loughlin is a serial entrepreneur and author of “KILLING IT! An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Keeping Your Head Without Losing Your Heart” (Harper Collins, December 2016). She has served as the CEO of Clif Bar, where she led the concept development and introduction of Luna Bar. In Sheryl’s three years as CEO, the company revenue doubled from $100M to $200M.

Sheryl then went on to co-found and serve as CEO of Plum Organics. Plum was sold in 2013 to the Campbells Soup Company.  She was the Executive Director of the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.

Sheryl is currently CEO of REBBL, a fast-growing maker of super herb beverages.  Sheryl earned her MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. She lives in Santa Rosa with her husband, Patrick, and her two sons.

Website: www.rebbl.co

Social Media Links:

Facebook: www.facebook.com/rebblelixirs

Facebook: www.facebook.com/sheryloloughlinauthor

Twitter: www.twitter.com/rebblelixirs

Instagram: www.instagram.com/rebbl

David Potack, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Unitex Textile Rental Services and Med-Apparel Services joins Enterprise Radio to discuss the importance of proper medical linen laundering and how it impacts patients and medical staff alike.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest David Potack discuss the following:

* You joined us last year on our sister network – eHealth Radio to talk about Unitex and we are excited to have you back.  Just so we can get our entrepreneur listeners up to speed, let’s start with the basics, what is Unitex and what services do you provide?

* Why is it so important for hospitals and medical facilities to work with an experienced and reliable medical linen service provider and why does it make more sense for these facilities to use a service like Unitex versus doing their laundry in house?

* Let’s talk more about the industry as a whole. You were recently elected as the 63rd Chairman of the TRSA (Textile Rental Service Association). What is the TRSA and what are your main initiatives as chairman?  Can you also tell me more about what this means for the industry overall?

* Where do you see the Textile Rental Service in 5 years and how does Unitex fit into that big picture?

* Unitex is a successful family owned and run business for over 100 years which is interesting and unique within itself. What advice do you have for others looking to start a family business?  And what general advice do you have for aspiring entrepreneurs?

David Potack, Serves as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Unitex Textile Rental Services/Med-Apparel Services.  Along with his father, Michael, and brother, Robert, David is an owner/operator of the business, founded in 1922 by his great-grandfather, Max Potack. David received his college degree from Washington University, St. Louis, MO in 1995.

David began his career with Unitex soon after earning his degree in 1995.  David is the Chairman of TRSA, as well as the former Chairman of the TRSA Government Affairs Committee, a position he held for several terms.  He is a board member of the Newburgh Community Land Bank, a not-for-profit community-based housing redevelopment organization, and is also a board member of St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital.

He and his wife Samantha, and their two children, Alexa and Justin, reside in Westchester County NY, just outside of New York City.

 

Website: www.unitex.com

Social Media Links:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UnitexTextileUS

Twitter: @Unitextextile

Dr. John Glossner, President of HSA or The Heterogeneous System Architecture a non-profit whose goal is making programming for parallel computing easy and pervasive again joins Enterprise Radio to discuss more about the foundation, the overall benefit and the new partnership.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Dr. John Glossner discuss the following:

* Dr. Glossner, we last talked in early November.  For the benefit of our listeners, can you please provide a brief synopsis again on what the HSA Foundation is.

* In November, we also talked about what the Foundation calls Academic Centers of Excellence.  Please elaborate again on what these are, and how does a higher educational institution become one?

* You mentioned then that Northeastern University in Boston was the first of these; in early December, two leading German universities also became Academic Centers of Excellence.  Tell us about each and elaborate on some of the innovative HSA projects they’re working on.

* AMD, a founding member of the Foundation, recently provided a tutorial at an international conference on code generation and optimization.  The title was ‘Updates in Heterogeneous Compute.’ Please share what you see as recent heterogeneous compute updates and developments.

* It appears that heterogeneous compute will be applicable for an array of apps.  This can be everything from vision based IoT systems to mobile devices; desktops, high-performance computing (HPC) systems, AR/VR environments, and servers. So how will heterogeneous compute improve performance and power efficiency?

* How does HSA make life easier for IP and system designers?

John Glossner, Ph.D. is the President of The Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Foundation and is a non-profit consortium of SoC IP vendors, OEMs, Academia, SoC vendors, OSVs and ISVs, whose goal is making programming for parallel computing easy and pervasive.

HSA members are building a heterogeneous computing ecosystem, rooted in industry standards, which combines scalar processing on the CPU with parallel processing on the GPU, while enabling high bandwidth access to memory and high application performance with low power consumption.

HSA defines interfaces for parallel computation using CPU, GPU and other programmable and fixed function devices, while supporting a diverse set of high-level programming languages, and creating the foundation for next-generation, general-purpose computing.

Glossner currently serves as CEO of General Processor Technologies.

Website: www.hsafoundation.com

Social Media Links:

Facebook: facebook.com/thehsafoundation

Twitter: @hsafoundation

Dr. Flavio Villanustre, VP of Technology for HPCC Systems and LexisNexis Risk Solutions joins Enterprise Radio to show how businesses of all sizes can harness power of data.

HPCC Systems is a data-intensive supercomputing platform that is designed for enterprises to resolve big data challenges. It was designed for LexisNexis Risk Solutions and is now open sourced so all companies can leverage its power.

Listen to interview with host Eric Dye & guest Dr. Flavio Villanustre discuss the following:

* How is HPCC Systems meeting a unique need in the marketplace?

* How can using HPCC Systems help small and medium sized businesses better harvest their data to improve productivity or innovation?

* What kind of talent should a company have internally to properly use the technologies of HPCC Systems?

* What are some ways some of your current customers are using the technology?

* What trends are you seeing in big data which will change the way people do business?

Dr. Flavio Villanustre is Vice President, Infrastructure, HPCC Systems, and Vice President, Information Security for the risk solutions business of LexisNexis®. He is responsible for overall platform architecture strategy, new product development and information security management. He joined LexisNexis in 2004 as Director of Infrastructure, where he was responsible for core infrastructure services, including data center operations, technical administration and support, end-user support and information security management.

Before joining LexisNexis, Villanustre was Director of Infrastructure for Seisint, which he joined after working with Diveo Broadband Networks and Inea Internet Service Provider as Director of Operations and Operations Manager, respectively. He began his technology career with Century Internet Service Provider.

Villanustre has more than 20 years experience in information technology and is a frequent speaker on his multiple specialties, including IT infrastructure management, network and data security, Linux/Unix architectures, open source systems, machine learning, natural language processing and data science. Involved in the open source community for more than 15 years, he founded the Buenos Aires Linux User Group.

He earned a bachelor’s in computer science from Stanford University and holds certifications from Microsoft and ISC2. Before his current career path, Villanustre was a neurosurgeon, earning his medical degree from Universad de Buenos Aires.

Website: www.hpccsystems.com

Social Media Links:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hpccsystems

Twitter: @hpccsystems

Vadim Vladimirskiy, Founder and CEO of IT-as-a-Service platform Nerdio a leader in ITaaS technology joins Enterprise Radio to discuss IT-as-a-Service to focus on your core business.

Listen to interview with host Eric Dye & guest Vadim Vladimirskiy discuss the following:

* Tell me please, “IT-as-a-Service”, who wants it, who needs it and why?

* Nerdio says you turn the IT department into superheros, isn’t this an exaggeration?

* How about cybersecurity, protecting from DDOs attacks, backing up the system, or disaster recovery, is the Nerdio team dealing with all of this?

* Your new business appears to be mostly from value added resellers and managed service providers? Why do integrators and MSPs use and recommend Nerdio?

* So if everything is in the cloud, how do you secure access and data? Tell me a bit about your data centers and cloud security.

A creative technologist with a mind for business, Vadim Vladimirskiy is the head honcho at Adar. Vadim’s the brains behind the evolution of Nerdio, bringing Streaming IT to the masses – that is, small and medium sized organizations. When he’s not continually pushing the IT envelope, Vadim’s at home with his loving wife and four boisterous kids.

Website: www.getnerdio.com

Social Media Links:

Facebook:  www.facebook.com/GetNerdio

Twitter: @getnerdio

Terry Powell, Founder/CEO of The Entrepreneur’s Source that provides empowerment and education to people, who want to follow their dreams to business ownership joins Enterprise Radio.

Listen to interview with host Eric Dye & guest Terry Powell discuss the following:

* When did you first realize you had a true entrepreneurial spirit? What was the first “A-ha” moment you remember that steered you toward business ownership?

* Tell us about being disregarded by many peers and authority figures in your youth.  How did you use that adversity to fire your passion to be successful?

* Tell us about your “crossroad moment”: what gave you the courage to reject “9-5”, and start something totally new, after suffering the business/personal losses in your mid-30’s?

* Tell us about the legacy you want to leave. What will shape that?

* Tell us your thoughts on the incoming Trump administration, the impact it could have on small business, and franchising, in particular.  What would YOU like to see Trump accomplish in his first 100 days in office?

Franchise Thought Leader® Terry Powell is the founder of The Entrepreneur’s Source® (ESource), a 32-year-old world-class franchise coaching company.  ESource disrupted the franchise industry in 1984 and transformed the conventional way of thinking behind providing alternative career coaching to aspiring franchise business owners.

In 1998, fourteen years after he launched ESource, Terry recognized the need to franchise his concept.  Today over 100 ESource coaches use a transformative self-discovery coaching process that has assisted thousands of individuals in owning their dream franchise business across North America.  Those thousands of clients invested more than $1 Billion in over 600 different franchised businesses over 85 different industries.

Terry is committed to the development and advancement of the entrepreneur and those who aspire to become one.  Recently he partnered with Sacred Heart University to establish the Lisa Powell Memorial Endowed Scholarship in memory of his daughter.  The Scholarship will benefit female business student’s studying entrepreneurship. He is also an active member of the United Church of Christ in Southbury, CT, serving on their Board of Deacons and working with the church’s Youth Groups. FSBI is also a proud sponsor of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.

At his core, Terry Powell is a serial entrepreneur. Ever since he started his first business at the age of 16, Terry has never looked back. Today, he leads The Entrepreneur’s Source® as the Founder and Visionary.  As a Franchise Thought Leader he continues to apply his knowledge and experience in the entrepreneurial community by impacting others through coaching.   The company’s coaching methodology and success has been widely publicized in numerous medium, including The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, ABC, Fox & Friends and Bloomberg TV.

Throughout its 32 years The Entrepreneur’s Source® has been an active advocate of the IFA along with Terry’s multi-brand franchise organization, Franchise Source Brands International (FSBI), and continues to sponsor FSBI team members for their CFE continuing education. Terry is also a strong proponent of Veterans and works closely with several organizations, including the IFA and Small Business Association (SBA) to increase their education on Franchising to military veterans.

Website: www.entrepreneurssource.com

Social Media Links:

Facebook: www.facebook.

Paul A. Trinetti, the author of the Sci-Fi Political Thriller books, The Vexton Series, A Story of a Future America: Book 1 – MANUFRACTURED (Iguana Books 2015), Book 2 – MOON SHADE BLUFF (Iguana Books 2016) & Book 3 – THE PRESERVATION PLAN (Iguana Books 2017) all published by Iguana Books joins Enterprise Radio.

This episode of Enterprise Radio is in conjunction with the Author Channel.

Listen to interview with host Eric Dye & guest Paul A. Trinetti discuss the following:

* Could you tell us about your latest book?

* Your series has a theme which involves corporate and political corruption – what about those themes do you find interesting?

* How strong are the science fiction themes in your books – and do you have an author that has inspired you in that genre?

* What do you hope to accomplish by publishing your books?

* What advice would you give to aspiring authors who wish to have success in publishing their work?

Paul A. Trinetti is the author of the Sci-fi Political thriller books, The Vexton Series – A Story of a Future America. Book 1 – MANUFRACTURED (Iguana Books 2015), Book 2 – MOON SHADE BLUFF (Iguana Books 2016) Book 3 – THE PRESERVATION PLAN (Iguana Books 2017).

Paul began writing The Vexton Series, a fictional journey into a future America, in 2012. His series examines the human condition by exploring society’s intersecting dichotomies: politics and organized crime, technology and nature, and medicine and mysticism.

A lifelong resident of Toronto, Paul is proud to have worked for his family’s business for nearly twenty-five years. His passion for writing came out of a love of music. As a young child, he became fascinated by the clever storytelling of The Beatles and later with the writing of other artists like Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Yes, Rush, Bob Dylan, Peter Gabriel, and Lou Reed.

In his spare time, Paul has recorded close to seventy original songs, including a four song soundtrack to accompany his Vexton book Series. Paul is also an avid sports fan.

Website: http://paultrinetti.com

Social Media Links:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/paultrinetti

Twitter: @PaulTrinetti

 

Hadiza Kassim, Founder and Owner of Shop Sarauniya, an African print fashion brand joins eCommerce Radio to talk about her entrepreneurial journey.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Hadiza Kassim discuss the following:

* Please share with us how Shop Sarauniya was born.

* How has Shop Sarauniya evolved since then?

* What are some of the obstacles you’ve encountered as a young entrepreneur?

* What separates Shop Sarauniya from other brands in the market?

* What does the future look like for Shop Sarauniya?

Hadiza Kassim is an undergraduate student completing her final year at Ithaca College. She founded Shop Sarauniya in 2014, at the tender age of 19, with the vision of bringing the traditional african print to the forefront of the fashion industry. That, paired with her passion for development in Africa is the very essence of what the brand is. All designs are created in New York City and sent to Accra, Ghana where they are transformed into beautiful garments by a small team of seamstresses. The motivation behind this approach is to create jobs in Ghana in the hopes of improving the social and economic status of women.

Website: www.shopsarauniya.com

Instagram : @officialsarauniya

Rocky Romanella from 3Sixty Management Services, specializing in sustainable results and Balanced Leadership training for businesses joins Enterprise Radio. Rocky discusses how balanced leadership will make your business thrive.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Rocky Romanella discuss the following:

* Tell us a bit about your professional background and what led to you to found 3SixtyManagement Services.

* What inspired you to write your book, Tighten the Lug Nuts: The Principles of Balanced Leadership?

* Can you explain the concept of Balanced Leadership to us?

* In your opinion, what are the fundamental ingredients of success?

* How do you balance family life and your work commitments?

Rocky Romanella was born in New York City and raised in New Jersey in an Italian family. He began a 36-year career with UPS on June 15, 1976 as a part-time loader and unloader. From there, Romanella climbed the ranks to become President and General Manager of UPS Supply Chain Solutions.

After retiring from the largest transportation and logistics company in the world, Romanella went on to serve as Chief Executive Officer and Director for UniTek Global Services, a mid-cap telecommunications solutions company. His experience in operational management, business integration, telecommunications, franchise development, supply chains, and leadership development led to founding 3SIXTY Management Services, LLC.

Utilizing over 40 years of experience, Romanella embarked on writing Tighten the Lug Nuts: The Principles of Balanced Leadership, which explores the ways a true leader can add value as a trusted advisor, mentor, and visionary who uses a process approach to lead the organization and its people to new levels of success.

Rocky holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Management from St. John’s University.

Website: www.3sixtymanagementservices.com

Social Media Links:

Facebook: Facebook.com/3SIXTYmgt

Twitter: @3SIXTYmgt 

Ron Cocquyt, currently President of Hylander Management, a business coaching practice that focuses on inventors, entrepreneurs, and small business owners joins Enterprise Radio.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Ron Cocquyt discuss the following:

* What is an Exit Strategy? Why is it the critical component to a successful venture?

* What is the importance of having a solid sales strategy and someone in the company who is its most important salesperson? “Nothing happens until the sale is made.”

* What are the four questions that must be answered before a successful Marketing Plan can be created?

* What is the importance of a well-written Executive Summary?

Ron Cocquyt, President of Hylander Management LLC, has maintained his business coaching practice since 1992.  Prior to that, Mr. Cocquyt was President and co-founder of Monarch Products, manufacturer of a patented method for sterilizing surgical instruments.  Mr. Cocquyt was the inventor of this product and with his partners built an international company that was eventually sold to Johnson & Johnson.

Mr. Cocquyt has also been involved in the establishment and development of two other medical companies, both of which still exist.  Along with his business experience, he has spent extensive time in both minor and professional hockey as a coach, administrator, and evaluator.  He now combines his coaching experience with his business acumen to successfully advise and mentor the owners of a variety of small and medium-sized businesses.

For the past three years, Mr. Cocquyt has participated in Florida Atlantic University’s Business Plan Competition as a mentor to participants and a judge.  This mentoring program allows him to work with students as well as community members who are seeking to create effective business plans.

Website: www.hylandermanagement.com